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    THE GAME LOST AND THE GAME WON

    — BY CHARLES H. GRANGER.

    In offering these designs to the public, the publisher deems it proper to make but few remarks. The “GAME OF LIFE,” by Moritz Retzsch, has gained a well deserved celebrity, as being a beautiful and highly poetical allegory; and there can be no doubt that all discerning and thoughtful persons, with the aid of the accompanying description, will appreciate its excellence without any additional comment. With regard to the GAME LOST, and the GAME WON, the designer will only say that he has endeavored to carry out the allegory, by showing the possible results of the game. In the GAME OF LIFE all is quiet, and there is an awful stillness of intense expectation. Satan has just taken away peace of mind from man, and is gazing upon him with a malignant expression of anticipated triumph; while man seems to be anxiously debating what shall be his next move; and the guardian angel looks on with an expression of pity and compassion. The very carved lion upon the chair of Satan, and the monsters upon the wall, are made to glare upon man, as if ready to spring upon him should he lose the game.GOL 8.1

    The GAME LOST represents the triumph of Satan, the despair of man, and the mournful disappointment of the guardian angel. The cover of the sarcophagus being removed, Death rises mid smoke and flames, and strikes man with his dart. All is confusion and uproar.GOL 8.2

    In the GAME WON, quiet is again restored. Man, in an attitude of religious devotion, turns toward the angel, who points upward with a look of encouragement and approval. The lion crouches asleep, and cherubs preparing wreaths occupy the places of the monsters upon the walls, while the cross, book, and roses, upon the sarcophagus, show that death and the grave are no longer subjects of fear. Satan has disappeared; and the robe and cap, with the broken plume, alone remain to show his discomfiture.GOL 8.3

    PICTURE — THE GAME OF LIFE.
    PICTURE — THE GAME LOST.
    PICTURE — THE GAME WON.

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